Jordin Canada and Monique Billings’ jobs are done at UCLA. They led the Bruins to their first Elite Eight appearance since 1999. They played in three straight Sweet 16s. And they completed their degrees.

Now it’s on to the next job.

After leaving their mark at UCLA, Canada and Billings will try to jump to the WNBA. The Southern California natives were among the top 10 prospects invited to the league’s New York City headquarters to attend the draft Thursday at 4 p.m. PDT. Connecticut was the only other school to send multiple players to the draft festivities.

The Bruins haven’t had a first-rounder since Noelle Quinn in 2007 and could have two players selected in the first round in the same year for the first time.

Jordin Canada: Primed to be a top pick

After 15 years, two WNBA championships and 10 All-Star team appearances in Seattle, 37-year-old Sue Bird is in the twilight of her career. The Storm, with the fifth overall pick, could snag Canada as the heir to Bird’s throne.

Mock drafts from the Associated Press and ESPN have Canada going to Seattle. The Storm could also pick Duke’s Lexie Brown to fill their point guard needs.

“Is there a player that’s more fun to watch than (Canada)?” ESPN analyst LaChina Robinson said. “She can lose a defender off the bounce, no problem. Very classy. She can penetrate the defense, find the seams. She’s got the next-level quickness.”

Canada is the Pac-12’s all-time leader in assists (831) and the first woman in conference history with more than 1,800 points and 700 assists, joining Oregon State’s Gary Payton as the only two Pac-12 players to achieve the feat. Her 2,153 points rank second at UCLA.

She is not a pure shooter, Robinson said, but Canada shot a career-high 38.6 percent from 3-point range this season.

“The only question mark is really her durability because she’s kind of small and you can move her around the court,” Robinson said. “But that’s fixable.”

Canada is listed at 5-foot-6 with a slight build. The two-time Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year missed only four games in her four-year UCLA career, with none coming during the past two seasons.

Monique Billings: Late first, early second round

Size is also a concern for Billings’ draft stock, although the 6-foot-4 forward is still a likely first-round pick.

“If she had 15 to 20 more pounds on her, she’d be a better player for our league,” said Bill Laimbeer, head coach of the Las Vegas Aces, who pick first Thursday.

SB Nation predicts Billings landing with the Indiana Fever at eighth overall while ESPN has the two-time All-Pac-12 first teamer waiting until the Sparks’ No. 11 pick. The Associated Press slots Billings as the second pick in the second round, also going to the Fever.

“She’s always been high motor, runs the floor like a guard,” Fever coach Pokey Chatman said. “She can defend multiple positions because she can move laterally. She’s great on the boards, but you can see she’s trying to get herself a little more solid and under control offensively.”

Billings is UCLA’s all-time leader in blocks (228) and ranks second in rebounds (1,159). The Corona native is “natural bouncy,” UCLA head coach Cori Close said, but needed to polish her footwork to become a more dominant presence on offense. She worked on her face-up game this season, giving her a mid-range jumper to fend off double teams.

Despite the extended range, Billings’ shooting percentage stayed the same from her junior and senior seasons. Her free-throw shooting improved from 47.7 percent as a freshman to 71.6 percent as a senior.

WNBA Draft

Where: New York City

When: Thursday, 4 p.m.

TV: First round at 4 p.m. on ESPN2; second and third rounds at 5 p.m. on ESPNU.

Thuc Nhi Nguyen has covered UCLA for the Southern California News Group since 2016. A proud Seattle native, she majored in journalism and mathematics at the University of Washington. She likes graphs, animated GIFs and superheroes.